Ketanji Brown Jackson Confirmed To The Supreme Court

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🗓️ 7 April 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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The vote was 53 to 47, with three Republicans joining the Democratic caucus in support of Jackson's nomination. When sworn in this summer, she will be the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.

This episode: demographics and culture correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben, legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg, and national justice correspondent Carrie Johnson.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Maddie and I recently moved from North Dakota to North Carolina. Turns out the childhood
0:05.7	ritual of putting your pencil in the freezer when we wanted a snow day works as an adult trying
0:10.9	to get the student loan payment pause extended. This podcast was recorded at 315 pm on April 7th, 2022.
0:20.3	Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but I'll still be waiting for my pencil to
0:24.3	pause. Alright, here's the show. Wait, is that a thing? I never heard of that. Moreover, who uses pencils?
0:35.2	Bless your heart. Wow. Does it can it be mechanical? Does it have to... I have a lot of questions, but...
0:43.3	Me too. Hello there. It is the NPR Politics podcast. I'm Danielle Kurtzlayb and I cover
0:49.2	demographics and culture. I'm Nina Tottenberg. I cover the Supreme Court. And I'm Carrie Johnson,
0:54.4	National Justice Correspondent. And it is a historic day. Katanji Brown Jackson will be the first
1:00.1	black woman to serve on the nation's high court. She was confirmed by the Senate in a vote this afternoon,
1:05.1	all 50 people who caucused with the Democrats voted for her. And they were joined by three Republicans,
1:10.4	Senators Mitt Romney of Utah, Susan Collins of Maine, and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. As we said,
1:16.8	this was a historic moment. It was the fulfillment of a campaign promise that Joe Biden made when
1:21.9	he was running for president. Vice President Kamala Harris was presiding in the Senate chamber today.
1:27.0	On this vote, the A's are 53, the A's are 47, and this nomination is confirmed.
1:38.3	I just said this is a historic moment. We have the first black woman on the Supreme Court.
1:43.3	I'm curious if you guys just as experts on this could reflect on how historic this is.
1:49.2	I don't think I can put myself quite in the position of the way black women feel today about
1:56.7	this nomination and this nominee now confirmed justice to be. But I do recall what it felt like
2:06.0	when Sandra Day O'Connor was named as the first woman to the court at all. And I've been covering
2:11.6	all men for quite a while already. And every woman I knew, regardless of their political views,
2:20.4	just was thrilled by this nomination. It was such a special moment. Every woman I knew felt just
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